Primetime Wrestling, known in the community for charitable donations and outreach, has announced it is turning to the public to select the next donation recipient for its May 17 event at the Prince George Civic Centre.
The community responded overwhelmingly in favour of supporting students at Shas Ti Kelly Road Secondary School, helping them surpass their fundraising goal for upcoming graduation celebrations.
“They ran with it,” said Primetime Wrestling president Davy Greenlees. “It was a bit of a landslide. They spread the information and all sorts of people messaged the page — they were private messaging us and me directly and all sorts of things. It was fun!”
Proceeds from this weekend’s matches will go toward supporting Shas Ti Kelly Road students, and Greenlees promises fans an exciting show.
“Saturday, the main event is John Gillespie and The Aviator, Sean Gaston, in a title match for the Northwestern title belt,” said Greenlees. “That one’s been going on for a little while and Sean keeps sneaking away and getting out of the match. They’re doing a dog collar and chain match, so they’ll be chained to each other. Sean can’t run away.
“Friday night, I believe we have a tag-team match between our champions, The Handsome Devils, and a team coming in from Quebec called Chocolate City. They want a piece and a chance to get those tag-team belts.”
Primetime Wrestling has long been committed to supporting Prince George and local charities, with Greenlees telling the Citizen that charitable work has been one of the group’s founding principles.
“When we started Primetime and got it going, my partner Stuart Brown and myself — we’re both heavily into supporting the community,” said Greenlees. “We really decided that’s what we wanted to do overall — not only do shows primarily in Prince George, but make everything we’re doing have another cause to it.
“Our company’s name is Primetime after one of our previous wrestlers, Primetime Frankie Styles, who passed away during COVID. We started off raising money for mental health, which we do once a year with the crisis centre, and then it just branched from there. It just made sense to have other organizations benefit from the shows.”
In the past two years, Primetime has raised more than $30,000 for various organizations, including but not limited to Scouts Canada, the Navy League Cadets, the Crisis Centre and the Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation.
Greenlees said he’s impressed — though not surprised — by how the community always steps up to support Primetime events and their causes.
“Prince George is a fundraising town,” he said. “The whole community here is always behind the organizations. Finding unique ways to help these groups raise funds is always, always difficult. Sometimes we get stuck doing the same thing. It’s neat to bring another way to help these organizations and put on affordable, family entertainment for our community at the same time.”
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